Very much in the tradition of "Slap Shot," George Roy Hill's raucously funny and foul-mouthed 1977 laffer about the misadventures of a minor-league hockey team, "Semi-Pro" scores big laughs with the rowdy play-by-play of hard-luck hoopsters struggling for professional survival. For some auds, Will Ferrell doing a full-court press in a white-guy afro alone will be worth the price of admission. But the New Line release also offers most valuable playing by a first-rate supporting cast, and enough funny business to ensure enduring playoffs on homevid and cable after a profitable theatrical run.
Ferrell delivers an amusing spin on his trademark screen persona (a semi-delusional doofus with a misguided sense of self-worth) as Jackie Moon
, a one-hit-wonder disco crooner whose single, singular success enabled him to purchase an American Basketball Assn. team -- the Tropics of Flint, Mich. -- and install himself as coach, power forward and chief promoter.
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